MESSAGE¶
Description¶
Historically, the BIG-IP full-proxy architecture has focused on
flow-based processing, and this works very well for most protocols.
However, some message based protocols aggregate distinct message
streams in a single flow. Originally, iRules that needed to manage
these protocols used the Message Based Load Balancing (MBLB)
interface. This approach, while powerful, handled message flows but
did not provide fine-grained control for directing messages to
particular peers based on the contents, and also provided no built-in
methods for message processing. It was all handled in iRules. In
version 11.5, F5 introduced the Message Routing Framework (MRF) to
BIG-IP. This framework allows the creation of sophisticated message
and peer handling. It decouples peers, the transport used with peers,
and both the forwarding and persistence of messages. This namespace
supports message-based commands.
The iRule commands below are used to interact with the MRF messages.
Commands¶
- MESSAGE::field - used for operations for a message’s field
- MESSAGE::proto - returns protocol of the message
- MESSAGE::type - returns the type of the current message
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